Dr. Gregory Pappas has recently been honored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy with the 2016 Inter-American Philosophy Award: best paper concerning Latin American, Latino/a or indigenous philosophies across the Americas (“Zapatismo, Luis Villoro, and American Pragmatism on Democracy, Power, and injustice”).
Philosophy Prof Encourages Teaching Philosophy To Kids
Most people think of philosophy as such a weighty subject it can only be studied at the college level, but Dr. Claire Katz, a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at Texas A&M University, says that idea is wrong. “Children in elementary, junior and senior high schools are taught that critical thinking is […]
Gregory Pappas receives 2015 John Mellow Prize at SAAP Annual Conference
Gregory Pappas, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, received the 2015 John Mellow Prize at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy annual meeting for his paper titled, “The Pragmatists approach to Injustice.” This award recognizes excellence in advancing the American philosophical tradition toward the resolution of current personal, social and political problems. It […]
Daniel Conway to Host 9th Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle in April 2015
The Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University welcomes you to the ninth annual meetings of the Hannah Arendt Circle in College Station, Texas. APRIL 23-25, 2015 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PUBLIC LECTURES: Annabel Herzog, University of Haifa Christian Emden, Rice University Conference Program REGISTRATION All sessions and events are open to the public. Students and […]
Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy
by Scott Austin Published by Palgrave Macmillan Tao and Trinity treats the Trinity as a philosophical notion coming to birth in Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Plato. All three attempt to treat the idea of an absolute source or unity of all things, and are driven in the direction of a first principle which is an instance […]
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy by Claire Katz
By Claire Katz Published by I.B. Tauris How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations of general philosophical inquiry. Questions about God, reality, language, and […]
Ritual, Women, and Philippi: Reimagining the Early Philippian Community
by Jason Lamoreaux Published by Cascade Books As one surveys the scholarship on the canonical letter to the Philippians, one notices the lack of attention to women within many scholars’ analyses. To a certain extent, this lack of attention exists because ancient texts often leave out information about women. Using ritual studies, archaeology, and textual […]
Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History by Kristi Sweet
By Kristi Sweet Published by Cambridge University Press Kant’s ‘practical philosophy’ comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what […]
Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism by Claire Katz
By Claire Katz Published by Indiana University Press Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education, Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas’s larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas’s “Crisis of Humanism,” which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into […]
Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare’s Two Level Utilitarianism by Gary Varner
By Gary Varner Published by Oxford University Press R.M. Hare was one of the most important ethical theorists of the 20th century, and one of his graduate students, Peter Singer, became famous for his writings on animals and personhood. Singer now says that he endorses Hare’s “two-level utilitarianism,” and he has invoked the theory’s distinction […]